Manchin agrees to tax billionaires and impose 15% corporate tax rate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is agreeable to Joe Biden's plan to increase taxes on 1,000 billionaires and impose a 15 per cent minimum corporate tax rate to pay for the massive social spending package, a person familiar with discussions revealed President Biden's package had an original price tag of $3.5 trillion, but that has been lowered to $1.75 trillion as centrist Democrats stalled the bill 'This morning, the President hosted Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin for breakfast at his home in Wilmington for what was a productive discussion about the Build Back Better Agenda, including equipping Americans to get back to work and making our economy deliver for the middle class -- not just those at the top,' the White House released in a readout of the meeting on Sunday.
42% : A second person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press that Manchin is agreeable to the White House's approach to raise taxes on 1,000 billionaires and impose a 15 per cent minimum corporate tax rate to pay for the plan.

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